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KY is such a loser. Like in a military coup this you guy which be basically minced for lunch, day one.
The right simply doesn't recognize any election it doesn't win as legitimate. In their soggy, conspiracy addled brains, the right can't be beaten, only cheated here and everywhere. Unfortunately this is just a feature of modern politics now, and there's a whole garbage ecosystem to support it that includes media organizations and nonprofits. It's simply a fact of life now that we have to deal with this every single time an election doesn't go their way.
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Elon Musk is without a doubt the most grotesque example of extreme wealth being mistaken for virtuous genius that I’ve ever seen, no contest.
A dude whose business empire has had the exceptional luxury of upwards of $38 BILLlON in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits that lectures us on government waste, fraud, and abuse.
He takes a literal fucking chainsaw to government aid, while hundreds of thousands die from the lack of access, and simultaneously engorges himself at the public pig trough of endless money.
He then takes the grift cash to buy elections, outright rig them, gains extraordinary access to the backrooms and convinces panting sycophants that he’s “fighting the establishment.”
He IS the establishment.
Years and years of missed deadlines, self driving promises just around the corner. Spectacular theatrical marketing presentations presented as new technology, with an army of ball riding zombies to explain why his latest failure is actually evidence of 5D chess wizardry.
All in line to be the friend he doesn’t have.
He was emailing Epstein to find about the “wildest parties” on child rape island, and you people still clamber.
Speaking of mouth breathing followers, the cult surrounding him is even more disturbingly dangerous.
Every glaring contradiction becomes an insult worthy misunderstanding.
Every dumb comment is a masterpiece. Every legitimate totally fair criticism becomes proof that the questioner is stupid, jealous, or secretly working against humanity itself.
It’s so blatantly a cult.
At what point does this bizarre admiration become deliberately and completely giving up independent thought?
You can acknowledge the success of his companies and the remarkable engineering feats without cosplaying that he’s some infallible prophet.
And give his employees some credit.
He’s a trillionaire with huge political influence, a pretty pathetic appetite for public attention indicative of someone that’s insecure, and a documented history of promise after promise that he doesn’t deliver on.
Please, don’t confuse money with intelligence.
They rarely go hand in hand.
Also, realize that proximity to great power is not synonymous with moral authority. The truth is historically the opposite.
And for fucks sake, stop worshipping people who wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire.
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People have every right to scrutinise Owen’s piece in Zeteo. But it’s curious that instead of doing that by engaging with the substance of the work, all he’s receiving is abuse, ad hominems and sneering.
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The report on antisemitism in schools provides a fascinating study in the parallel universes independent and mainstream media occupy.
Indie media has done it's job, scrutinised the report and highlighted its glaring inadequacies. The entire mainstream has simply reported it uncritically. /1
The Bell report finds that anti-Jewish attitudes are "less prevalent", while "anti-Israel sentiments are more prevalent" More here ⤵️
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Perhaps the most stark and revealing (accidental?) admission in the David Bell 'antisemitism in UK schools report. Antisemitic attitudes aren't increasing, only anti-Israel ones are. That's what most of this is about.
From the horse's mouth:
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“For what it's worth, it seems like one of the main reasons the economy has still been fairly agnostic to 'AI efficiency improvements' is because most jobs are fake anyways. People are not becoming 'More Efficient With AI™' because there was never anything for them to make more efficient in the first place (other than maybe looking busy).
To what extent does AI force society to confront how much economic activity was never particularly productive in the first place?”
I'm quite worried about the future we are inevitably heading towards where the threshold for economic utility rises above what ~99% of the human population can meet. Contrasting Dario and Sam on this issue wrt AI is so funny to watch.
Dario is a hyper-autist who, for all his faults, I think genuinely speaks his mind. He sees the tsunami coming. Software engineering may very well be gone in the next few years along with many other computer-facing careers (of course assuming one is running an actual company and not a UBI corporation, which most of Big Tech actually is).
He is trying to warn the normies that this is something that is actually coming, and all the screaming and crying about AI and datacenters will at this point only temporarily delay the inevitable. It is easy to dunk on Dario for peddling this doomerism, but can anyone refute his actual worry?
Sam, on the other hand, is hyper-Machiavellian. He has the social intelligence to recognize that telling the normies AI is gonna take all their jobs (whether it actually will or not) is bad for his company. So he has to preach this blatant lie that he clearly doesn't believe that 'AI is gonna create more jobs'. Yeah no it won't (with the exception of human data harvesters).
For what it's worth, it seems like one of the main reasons the economy has still been fairly agnostic to 'AI efficiency improvements' is because most jobs are fake anyways. People are not becoming 'More Efficient With AI™' because there was never anything for them to make more efficient in the first place (other than maybe looking busy).
To what extent does AI force society to confront how much economic activity was never particularly productive in the first place?
So what happens if we become more honest with ourselves about the actual utility of most jobs, especially when a computer can do them extremely easily and cheaply? What happens when 99%+ of the human population has little to no economic utility?
I think this social/cultural revolution (downstream of the AI revolution) is affecting young people most of all. I know kids who graduated from HYPSM+ who literally cannot get a job. Look at any honest news article and *minimum* 50% of new college grads are un/underemployed. I think this is a sign of things to come and how we respond to millions of people having less economic utility than the computer will likely become the defining challenge of our generation.
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The AI nerds are big mad that people have noticed that LLMs aren't actually intelligent.
Out in droves protecting their investments.
AI bubble gonna bust.
If work ends Business also ends. Capitalism serves no purpose.
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By the standards of British journalism this is a very brave cover, which you can see from the chorus of dimwitted objections being aired here today
OPEN LETTER: Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist. Her books must be available to the public. Their withdrawal from sale, on the basis of ill-conceived and draconian anti terror legislation, is an affront to basic principles of free speech and expression so long taken for granted in this country. We categorically reject censorship - whether direct or indirect - and urge the government to change course, amending the legislation which has led us to this point of repressive absurdity.
Love that she’s whoopassing the right wing clown show.
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Every few years Elon unveils a new Mechanical Turk and I have to listen to the stupidest marks on planet earth incredulously demand that other people be suckers too lest they kill the fun
